SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype landed on Wednesday for the first time after carrying out a high-altitude test flight in Texas — but exploded minutes later on its landing pad.

SpaceX conducted another flight test of the Starship interplanetary transport system, designed to revolutionize space travel.

On December 9th, SpaceX launched a prototype of its Starship rocket to its highest height yet, roughly 12.5 kilometers or nearly 8 miles, before landing it back on Earth.

Starship SN10 took off from Boca Chica, Texas, where SpaceX is developing the vehicle. It flew to a height of roughly 10 km, or 32,000 feet, before performing a maneuver to re-orient itself for a ...

The SpaceX Starship is in its 4th iteration and is officially entering the testing phase with the production of the Mark 1 ...

Update: The SN15 prototype flew and landed successfully on Wednesday. Read more in our story. SpaceX is about to launch its fifth high-flying Starship prototype on Wednesday afternoon. The ...

SpaceX is set to show off its Starship Mk1, an orbital-scale prototype of the spacecraft it eventually plans to use to attain its goal of fully reusable commercial spaceflight.

Minus fins and an aerodynamic nose section, a SpaceX Starship prototype climbs into the sky above Boca Chica, Texas, the first test flight of a full-scale version of the upper stage, ...

At the time, the expectation was that SpaceX would progress quickly into building and flying full-scale Starship prototypes. But after rushing to build the first such prototype in September 2019 ...

SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype stands atop a test stand at the company's Boca Chica, Texas test stand ahead of tank trials on April 23, 2020. (Image credit: SpaceX/Elon Musk via Twitter) ...

SpaceX performed another "static fire" test today (Dec. 15) at its South Texas facility, lighting up Ship 24, a prototype of Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft.

The Starship is 160 feet tall and 30 feet wide. It’s designed to carry more than 100 metric tons. When launching for missions beyond Earth's atmosphere, it will also stand on one of SpaceX's ...